Lucky by Alice Sebold
A Tale Of Determination
Enormously visceral, emotionally gripping, and imbued with the belief that
justice is possible even after the most horrific of crimes, Alice Sebolds
compelling memoir of her rape at the age of eighteen is a story that takes
hold of you and wont let go.Sebold fulfills a promise that she made to
herself in the very tunnel where she was raped: someday she would write
a book about her experience. With Lucky she delivers on that promise with
mordant wit and an eye for lifes absurdities, as she describes what she
was like both as a young girl before the rape and how that rape changed
but did not sink the woman she later became.It is Alices indomitable spirit
that we come to know in these pages. The same young woman who sets
her sights on becoming an Ethel Merman-style diva one day (despite her
braces, bad complexion, and extra weight) encounters what is still thought
of today as the crime from which no woman can ever really recover. In an
account that is at once heartrending and hilarious, we see Alices spirit
prevail as she struggles to have a normal college experience in the
aftermath of this harrowing, life-changing event.No less gripping is the
almost unbelievable role that coincidence plays in the unfolding of Sebolds
narrative. Her case, placed in the inactive file, is miraculously opened
again six months later when she sees her rapist on the street. This begins
the long road to what dominates these pages: the struggle for triumph and
understanding -- in the courtroom and outside in the world.Lucky is, quite
simply, a real-life thriller. In its literary style and narrative tension we never
lose sight of why this life story is worth reading. At the end we are left
standing in the wake of devastating violence, and, like the writer, we have
come to know what it means to survive.
Personal Review: Lucky by Alice Sebold
By now, most of you have heard of "The Lovely Bones" ... a movie which
started as a book written by Alice Sebold. If not for her quick-thinking and
clever strategy of getting into the mind of her attacker, Alice would never
have had the chance to write The Lovely Bones ... instead she would have
become them. This book is the story of her own brutal rape as a freshman
at Syracuse University, an act she tried very hard to forget but which
became her driving force for justice, and then for a spiraling descent into
the lowest moments of her life. If you've ever wondered about the dirty
little secrets entwined in this crime, Alice reveals them all ... even the bad
side of justice as we learn about the revenge rape of her friend, whose
friendship she ultimately loses. As someone who was nearly raped by a
man with a knife, I have always wondered "what if" I hadn't maneuvered
my way out of that incident. Alice's story gives me closure, and I now
realize just how "lucky" I was.
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